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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: allow disabling timeout with
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Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 08:52:55 -0300
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> Tests appear to be hanging when run under GNU timeout on debian
> stretch.  To aid in diagnosing this or similar problems, it's handy to
> be able to disable timeout from the command line at will.
>

1) Do we still need / want this?

2) care to reword the commit message?

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